CAFKA Biennial + Open Ears: here’s your starting line-up

On Wednesday, after the reception for Pascal Dufaux’s installation, I tagged along with the CAFKA posse over to the Cork Bar for a press event. On the agenda was the double announcement of the 2014 CAFKA Biennial and Open Ears lineups. Going to be an amazing time in June. Karie Liao, artistic director for CAFKA.14, is going to have details up on the CAFKA site soon, and I suspect Gregory Oh, artistic director for Open Ears, will too. In the meantime, Robert Reid has a solid piece in the Record you should check out.

Ben Grossman (above), mesmerized the assembly with some hypnotic hurdy gurdy. Regular mb readers may recall the wicked fieldtrip we took to Ben’s Guelph studio way back in 2011. He’s in the lineup for OE14, so definitely catch his show.

I had no idea there was a “secret” bar, the Cork Bar, attached to McCabe’s in downtown Kitchener. Great space.

I’ve been meeting more and more of the CAFKA gang over the years. It’s another group with great energy.

on the way. Gordon Hatt, executive director at CAFKA kicked it off. He also filled in for CAFKA president and board chair Graham Whiting who was tackling a late-breaking and happily non-life-threatening ER visit with a kid in need of stitches.

Karie Liao, introduced the CAFKA.14 lineup.

Mr. Marcel O’Gorman, delivered the awesomely utopian theme of CAFKA 2014: It Should Always Be This Way. Yes.